Registering design changes layout of all brochure pages

[dave_m]

Could anyone please help me with my frustration?!

I have created several brochure pages in an actinic site for which I have created a different layout in dreamweaver for each page as its easier for me to customise each layout in Dreamweaver rather than creating fragments etc. Anyway, when I register one of the designs with Actinic, it changes the layout of ALL brochure pages to the newly imported design!! Is there a way of setting each of the brochure pages to not use the newly imported design each time?

The process I am using is in Dreamweaver, I choose Actinic - register a design - brochure page layout.

In Actinic, for example, I have already chose a brochure page called 'About' to use the layout my_about which I imported several days earlier but when I import a new design for a new brochure page I have created, this changes to the newly imported one. Its driving me crazy, please help!

[leehack]

A truly crazy way of working, but if you go to the layout tab when you have each brochure page selected, you can define the overall layout to use. As you register a layout you cannot apply it to individual pages as the norm is to have a layout for all and thus that's what it does.

[dave_m]

Hi Lee. Thanks for replying. So, your confirming for me that if I add a new brochure layout any time, I have to go through and reselect the layout each brochure page uses?

[leehack]

That's correct. You could try creating new ones in the design library instead to circumvent the issue. There will be far better ways to do what you want.

[dave_m]

Hi Lee

Without being too much of a pain, I dont suppose you could suggest an alternative way of working could you? The thing is, the brochure pages I am creating are, for example, an integrated flickr gallery, interactive maps, lightbox systems - a lot of things that seemed a bit of a pain to do other than the way of working I have described above

I am a web developer but Actinic for some reason just throws me?!

[leehack]

You seem to be saying that the outer framework of the pages are the same, it is the inner content that is different, if i have that right, then you need to learn about fragments and more importantly the fragment list layout. You can get the content on a page to do pretty much whatever you want all within a standard framework (brochure page overall layout). Even if you need to add some html, you'd do this within a text only fragment by embedding the code.